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boats shall fish solely outside of the 3-mIle limit which 

 is pretty well known. The rule will, for want of such 

 boats, probably be inoperative for years to come and is 

 merely laid down, at present, as a principle of policy. 



Position of the F'irst Station. 



46. Having laid down the general lines of policy it 

 remains to consider the position of the first station. 

 This was originally intended to be Tellicherry, but I 

 would now propose the Madras neighbourhood, viz., 

 Ennore. My reasons have already been stated to 

 Government, viz. — 



" As elsewhere noted, the Indian Fisheries 

 Company is starting large works,* partly of an experi- 

 mental nature, at Cochin on the West Coast, and its 

 operations will extend to other places than Cochin ; 

 these operations are intended to and, it is hoped, will 

 cover experiments in all the items included under 

 catchinof and curino-. The conditions of the West Coast 

 from Cochin to Mangalore are all similar both in the 

 nature and depth of ihe sea, the breadth of the compara- 

 tively shallow (trawlable) area, the classes and seasons 

 of fish produced, the classes of persons engaged, the 

 implements used, and the communications available. 

 Hence, experiments in Cochin will be as instructive to 

 the whole West Coast as experiments at Tellicherry, 

 and since the experiments have actually begun and 

 should, by reason of abundance of funds and experts, 

 be more rapidly and thoroughly conducted than any 

 which Government could at once undertake, I consider 

 that the proposed Government experimental station at 

 Tellicherry should be transferred to the East Coast. 



" The locality which I would now propose is 

 Madras, or the neighbourhood not further north than 

 Ennore or south than the Adayar. Apart from the 

 reasons given above for transfer from Tellicherry, Madras 

 is indicated as the best site for a station ; it will probably 

 be the head-quarters of the Fisheries administration ; 

 scientific talent and assistance — engineering, mechanical, 

 chemical, etc., can always be drawn upon ; the results of 

 successful experiments will be noticed by competent 



* These were subsciiuently confined to a factory producing oil and " fish 

 guan.j" from the oil-sardine i^Clupea longiceps) of the coast. 



